For the Roses

by Joni Mitchell

For the Roses cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 21 November 1972
  • Label: Asylum
  • Country: Canada
  • Length: 40:19
  • Community rating: 3.98/5 from 6 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Bridging the gap between the acoustic intimacy of 'Blue' and the sophisticated jazz-pop of her later work, Joni Mitchell delivered a staggeringly beautiful, deeply introspective masterwork. 'For the Roses' is a remarkably poetic, beautifully complex folk-pop album, full of highly melodic, wonderfully mellow reflections on bittersweet romance and the pressures of fame.

Genres

Descriptors: folk, complex, melodic, confessional, piano, female-vocals, storytelling

Tracklist

  1. Banquet (3:01)
  2. Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire (4:17)
  3. Barangrill (2:52)
  4. Lesson in Survival (3:11)
  5. Let the Wind Carry Me (3:56)
  6. For the Roses (3:43)
  7. See You Sometime (2:56)
  8. Electricity (3:01)
  9. You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (2:39)
  10. Blonde in the Bleachers (2:42)
  11. Woman of Heart and Mind (2:38)
  12. Judgement of the Moon and Stars (Ludwig's Tune) (5:19)

Credits

  • Joni Mitchell - primary artist, composed by
  • Anthony Hudson - art direction, design
  • Wilton Felder - bass
  • Russ Kunkel - drums, drums (drum set)
  • Henry Lewy - engineer [sound], producer [guidance], sound
  • Graham Nash - harmonica
  • The Geffen, Roberts Co. - management [direction]
  • Bobbye Hall - percussion
  • Joel Bernstein - photography by, photography
  • Bobby Notkoff - strings
  • Tom Scott - woodwind [woodwinds], reeds, reeds woodwind
  • James Burton - electric guitar
  • Stephen Stills - guest [rock 'n' roll band]
  • Stephen Innocenzi - mastering

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